Quote:*nod* Yep. Working from the size of the buildings in the anime shot - which, you'll recall, we know because of scenes actually happening in the town - and making a wild-assed guess based on my knowledge of my hometown's size, density, and rough appearance from above (my house is at the edge of town, up on a mountain), I'd say that Anime!Konoha might have ~30,000 inhabitants, +/- 5,000. If building size holds true (reasonable, for a walled city), then Manga!Konoha has about four times that.
ETA2: Anime Konoha appears to be significantly smaller and more wooded than manga Konoha, eh? Maybe that's where you were getting the impression from, Nathan. It also lacks the fields and training grounds on the monument plateau from the look of things - which sucks, because the the Forest of Death in the upper right of the manga shot and its size given in the second exam instructions there was a concrete measurement for that version. On the plus side, you can see the distinctive ring and outbuildings of the arena on the upper left of the screen grab here.
Even if we make the most generous assumptions - that Hinokuni is about the size of France, and posesses an economy comparable to a modern industrialized nation's - Anime!Konoha is far from inconsiderable, and Manga!Konoha a major city.
At the other end, where I'm inclined to put things, even the smaller of the two versions is still likely the largest city in the country.
Ja, -n
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